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1 posted on 08/15/2025 5:48:20 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Fai Mao

That guy is annoying.


2 posted on 08/15/2025 6:08:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Fai Mao

Just send them over to Israel. I hear they are good at making our aircraft fly infinitely better.


3 posted on 08/15/2025 6:19:45 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: Fai Mao

I always liked the YF-23 better anyway...

the Black Widow, now that’s a name for an aircraft that’s a killer.


4 posted on 08/15/2025 6:26:33 PM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: Fai Mao
This is close to a design philosophy the Russians have used. Take an existing airframe and modify features rather than going to a clean sheet every time. The advantage is not having to reinvent design technology and finding the intellectual database to make something like that happen i.e. eliminate technical over-reach.

The other thing we desperately need to do is get the government red tape out of the way. Let the innovators innovate. We actually did that with the F-15 and F-16 and their records speak for themselves.

6 posted on 08/15/2025 6:46:30 PM PDT by pfflier
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The YF-23 lost in competition with the YF-22 a long time ago. Why he’d be so uniquely qualified to suggest how the F-35 should be updated I have no idea.


7 posted on 08/16/2025 4:16:51 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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